Variety TV critic Sonia Saraiya joins the podcast to discuss the recent Star Wars news that revealed that Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss would be writing and producing a series of films in the franchise and what that could mean for

Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips joins the podcast to talk about an op-ed he wrote for the newspaper following the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., and how it relates to a throwaway line from Black Panther, which opened this weekend.

Justine Smith joins the podcast to discuss her recent article on Fandor about Fifty Shades Freed and how the series has approached female sexual desire in a way unlike any other major franchise before it and what that means for the future of intimate romance